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THE SECOND BOOK OF THE<br/>
<span class=large>KINGS</span><br/> COMMONLY CALLED<br/> THE FOURTH BOOK OF THE KINGS
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CHAPTER 17
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Hoshea reigns in Israel and is subject to the Assyrians—Israel forsakes the Lord, worships idols, serves Baal, and rejects all that the Lord gave them—The ten tribes are carried away captive by kings of Assyria—Land of Israel (Samaria) repopulated by other people—Many forms of false worship found among the Samaritans.
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In</span> the twelfth year of Ahaz king of Judah began Hoshea the son of Elah to reign in Samaria over Israel nine years.
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And he did <i>that which was</i> evil in the sight of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, but not as the kings of Israel that were before him.
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&#182; Against him came up <sup>a</sup><a href="2_kgs/17/3a" mark="a" type="A" title="Hosea 10: 14 (13-14).">Shalmaneser</a> king of Assyria; and Hoshea became his servant, and gave him presents.
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And the king of Assyria found <sup>a</sup><a href="2_kgs/17/4a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Conspiracy.">conspiracy</a> in Hoshea: for he had sent messengers to So king of Egypt, and brought no present to the king of Assyria, as <i>he had done</i> year by year: therefore the king of Assyria shut him up, and bound him in prison.
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&#182; Then the king of <sup>a</sup><a href="2_kgs/17/5a" mark="a" type="A" title="Hosea 1: 4 (1-11); Hosea 7: 16; Hosea 8: 3 (1-14); Micah 1: 6 (1-16).">Assyria</a> came up throughout all the land, and went up to Samaria, and besieged it three years.
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&#182; In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took <sup>a</sup><a href="2_kgs/17/6a" mark="a" type="A" title="Hosea 13: 16; 2 Ne. 18: 4.">Samaria</a>, and <sup>b</sup><a href="2_kgs/17/6b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Israel, Scattering of.">carried</a> <sup>c</sup><a href="2_kgs/17/6c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Israel, Joseph, People of; TG Israel, Ten Lost Tribes of.">Israel</a> away into <sup>d</sup><a href="2_kgs/17/6d" mark="d" type="A" title="2 Kgs. 15: 19; Ezek. 23: 5; Hosea 8: 9.">Assyria</a>, and placed them in Halah and in Habor <i>by</i> the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.
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For <i>so</i> it was, that the children of Israel had <sup>a</sup><a href="2_kgs/17/7a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Apostasy of Israel.">sinned</a> against the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> their God, which had brought them up out of the land of Egypt, from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared other gods,
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And walked in the statutes of the <sup>a</sup><a href="2_kgs/17/8a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Heathen.">heathen</a>, whom the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> cast out from before the children of Israel, and of the kings of Israel, which they had made.
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And the children of Israel did secretly <i>those</i> things that <i>were</i> not right against the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> their God, and they built them high places in all their cities, from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city.
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And they set them up images and <sup>a</sup><a href="2_kgs/17/10a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ex. 34: 13.">groves</a> in every high hill, and under every green tree:
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And there they burnt incense in all the high places, as <i>did</i> the heathen whom the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> carried away before them; and wrought wicked things to provoke the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> to anger:
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For they served idols, whereof the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> had said unto them, Ye shall <sup>a</sup><a href="2_kgs/17/12a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ex. 20: 4; Mosiah 13: 12 (12-13).">not</a> do this thing.
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Yet the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> <sup>a</sup><a href="2_kgs/17/13a" mark="a" type="C" title="Neh. 9: 30; 1 Ne. 10: 5; Hel. 8: 24 (19-24); TG Preaching.">testified</a> against Israel, and against Judah, by all the <sup>b</sup><a href="2_kgs/17/13b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Authority; TG Prophets, Mission of.">prophets</a>, <i>and by</i> all the <sup>c</sup><a href="2_kgs/17/13c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Seer.">seers</a>, saying, Turn ye from your evil ways, and keep my commandments <i>and</i> my statutes, according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by my servants the prophets.
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Notwithstanding they would <sup>a</sup><a href="2_kgs/17/14a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Prophets, Rejection of.">not</a> hear, but <sup>b</sup><a href="2_kgs/17/14b" mark="b" type="C" title="Deut. 9: 13; TG Doubt.">hardened</a> their necks, like to the neck of their fathers, that did not <sup>c</sup><a href="2_kgs/17/14c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Faith; TG Unbelief, Unbelievers.">believe</a> in the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> their God.
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And they rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified against them; and they followed vanity, and became <sup>a</sup><a href="2_kgs/17/15a" mark="a" type="A" title="Rom. 1: 21.">vain</a>, and went after the heathen that <i>were</i> round about them, <i>concerning</i> whom the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> had charged them, that they should not do like them.
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And they left all the commandments of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> their God, and made them molten images, <i>even</i> two <sup>a</sup><a href="2_kgs/17/16a" mark="a" type="A" title="1 Kgs. 12: 28.">calves</a>, and made a <sup>b</sup><a href="2_kgs/17/16b" mark="b" type="A" title="Deut. 16: 21.">grove</a>, and worshipped all the <sup>c</sup><a href="2_kgs/17/16c" mark="c" type="A" title="2 Kgs. 21: 3.">host</a> of heaven, and served <sup>d</sup><a href="2_kgs/17/16d" mark="d" type="A" title="Hosea 11: 2 (1-4).">Baal</a>.
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And they caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the <sup>a</sup><a href="2_kgs/17/17a" mark="a" type="A" title="2 Kgs. 16: 3.">fire</a>, and used <sup>b</sup><a href="2_kgs/17/17b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Sorcery.">divination</a> and enchantments, and sold themselves to do <sup>c</sup><a href="2_kgs/17/17c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Evil.">evil</a> in the sight of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, to provoke him to anger.
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Therefore the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> was very angry with Israel, and <sup>a</sup><a href="2_kgs/17/18a" mark="a" type="A" title="2 Kgs. 23: 27; 2 Ne. 16: 12.">removed</a> them out of his sight: there was none left but the tribe of <sup>b</sup><a href="2_kgs/17/18b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Israel, Judah, People of.">Judah</a> only.
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Also Judah kept not the commandments of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> their God, but walked in the statutes of Israel which they made.
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And the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> <sup>a</sup><a href="2_kgs/17/20a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG God, Indignation of; TG Israel, Ten Lost Tribes of.">rejected</a> all the seed of Israel, and afflicted them, and delivered them into the hand of spoilers, until he had cast them out of his sight.
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For he rent Israel from the house of David; and they made Jeroboam the son of Nebat king: and Jeroboam drave Israel from following the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, and made them sin a great sin.
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For the children of Israel walked in all the sins of Jeroboam which he did; they departed not from them;
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Until the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> removed Israel out of his sight, as he had said by all his servants the <sup>a</sup><a href="2_kgs/17/23a" mark="a" type="A" title="1 Kgs. 9: 7 (1-7).">prophets</a>.  So was <sup>b</sup><a href="2_kgs/17/23b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Israel, Ten Lost Tribes of.">Israel</a> <sup>c</sup><a href="2_kgs/17/23c" mark="c" type="A" title="Hosea 1: 6.">carried</a> away out of their own <sup>d</sup><a href="2_kgs/17/23d" mark="d" type="B" title="TG Israel, Land of.">land</a> to Assyria unto this day.
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&#182; And the king of Assyria <sup>a</sup><a href="2_kgs/17/24a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ezra 4: 2 (2, 9-10).">brought</a> <i>men</i> from Babylon, and from Cuthah, and from Ava, and from Hamath, and from Sepharvaim, and placed <i>them</i> in the cities of Samaria instead of the children of Israel: and they possessed Samaria, and dwelt in the cities thereof.
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And <i>so</i> it was at the beginning of their dwelling there, <i>that</i> they feared not the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>: therefore the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> sent lions among them, which slew <i>some</i> of them.
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Wherefore they spake to the king of Assyria, saying, The nations which thou hast removed, and placed in the cities of Samaria, know not the manner of the God of the land: therefore he hath sent lions among them, and, behold, they slay them, because they know not the manner of the God of the land.
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Then the king of Assyria commanded, saying, Carry thither one of the priests whom ye brought from thence; and let them go and dwell there, and let him teach them the manner of the God of the land.
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Then one of the priests whom they had carried away from Samaria came and dwelt in Beth-el, and taught them how they should fear the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>.
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Howbeit every nation made gods of their own, and put <i>them</i> in the <sup>a</sup><a href="2_kgs/17/29a" mark="a" type="A" title="1 Kgs. 12: 31.">houses</a> of the high places which the <sup>b</sup><a href="2_kgs/17/29b" mark="b" type="A" title="John 4: 9.">Samaritans</a> had made, every nation in their cities wherein they dwelt.
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And the men of Babylon made Succoth-benoth, and the men of Cuth made Nergal, and the men of Hamath made Ashima,
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And the Avites made Nibhaz and Tartak, and the Sepharvites burnt their <sup>a</sup><a href="2_kgs/17/31a" mark="a" type="A" title="Morm. 4: 21.">children</a> in fire to Adrammelech and Anammelech, the gods of Sepharvaim.
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So they feared the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, and made unto themselves of the lowest of them priests of the high places, which sacrificed for them in the houses of the high places.
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They feared the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, and served their own gods, after the manner of the nations whom they carried away from thence.
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Unto this day they do after the former manners: they fear not the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, neither do they after their statutes, or after their ordinances, or after the law and commandment which the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> commanded the children of Jacob, whom he named <sup>a</sup><a href="2_kgs/17/34a" mark="a" type="C" title="1 Kgs. 18: 31; TG Israel, Origins of.">Israel</a>;
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With whom the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> had made a covenant, and charged them, saying, Ye shall not <sup>a</sup><a href="2_kgs/17/35a" mark="a" type="A" title="Judg. 6: 10.">fear</a> other <sup>b</sup><a href="2_kgs/17/35b" mark="b" type="A" title="Deut. 7: 16 (16-18).">gods</a>, nor bow yourselves to them, nor serve them, nor sacrifice to them:
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But the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt with great power and a stretched out arm, him shall ye fear, and him shall ye worship, and to him shall ye do sacrifice.
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And the statutes, and the <sup>a</sup><a href="2_kgs/17/37a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Ordinances.">ordinances</a>, and the law, and the commandment, which he wrote for you, ye shall observe to do for evermore; and ye shall not fear other gods.
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And the covenant that I have made with you ye shall not <sup>a</sup><a href="2_kgs/17/38a" mark="a" type="A" title="Deut. 4: 23; 1 Ne. 21: 15; Alma 46: 8; D&C 133: 2.">forget</a>; neither shall ye fear other gods.
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But the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> your God ye shall fear; and he shall <sup>a</sup><a href="2_kgs/17/39a" mark="a" type="A" title="2 Ne. 6: 17; Alma 58: 37; D&C 105: 8; D&C 108: 8.">deliver</a> you out of the hand of all your enemies.
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Howbeit they did not hearken, but they did after their former manner.
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So these nations feared the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, and served their graven images, both their children, and their children’s children: as did their fathers, so do they unto this day.
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